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Saturday, March 8, 2014 – 7pm – GALLERY SHOW OPENING NIGHT – PARTY LIKE IT’S 1865 At UnchARTed Gallery, 66 Merrimack Street in Lowell. Exhibit features images of Civil War reenactors in action. This opening event will include Civil War soldiers marching up Merrimack Street, a performance by the Civil…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle reports on happenings with the dynamic Greater Lowell Music Theatre, including a songfest of classics by Rodgers & Hammerstein on March 21-22 at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall. Read all about it in the Sun newspaper. Playwright, director, actor, baseball player, UMass Lowell English Dept. alumnus, and organizer supreme…
Read More »Today is Ash Wednesday ~ the day that marks the beginning of the Lenten season that guides the believer to the celebration of Easter Sunday. While its been many years since the churches of Lowell had pews overflowing with those waiting their turn to be marked on the forehead with a cross of…
Read More »(top photo by Jen Myers) I appreciated the farewell remarks of City Manager Bernie Lynch at his final City Council meeting as Manager last night. Especially this part, according to my colleague Dick Howe’s notes: Through all of that, I was hoping to build a sense of community. Lowell is…
Read More »Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Old Battersea Bridge (1872-75) James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1905) was nine years old when his family left Lowell and traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father helped the Czar build a railroad. In Lowell, his father, George Washington Whistler, and mother, Anna Matilda McNeill, lived at…
Read More »The blog posts and Facebook notes about Lowell Historical Society curator Ryan Owen and his finds in the Society’s collection must have raised his profile. Owen and the collection are front and center, front-page, above the fold in today’s Lowell Sun. As with the find of the Solon Perkins Civil…
Read More »State Representative Tom Golden has been out front and leading on public policy responses to the widespread opiate abuse that is claiming too many lives. In 2013, his advocacy led to the re-opening of Tewksbury Hospital’s Alcohol and Drug Detoxification Center and working with the Greater Lowell Health Alliance he…
Read More »Louise Griffin of Lowell is speaking out about the addiction crisis that is destroying so many lives around us. Her son died recently, after struggling for several years with addiction that began with taking pain-killing pills in high school after a hockey injury. Read about Zachary and Louise and two…
Read More »As Curator Ryan Owen delves more into the Lowell Historical Society’s old and diverse collection, he will be reporting about the oddities and curiosities that abound. His most recent find has us remembering a Lowellian and former Mayor and Lowell City Councilor. This is a cross-post from the LHS blog…
Read More »Bob Weible was the staff historian during the formative years of Lowell National Historical Park. Today, he is State Historian of New York and Chief Curator of the New York State Museum. During his Lowell years he was also unofficial Commissioner of a men’s-and-women’s softball league composed of teams from…
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